Halloween is when babies in reflector vests go, "Twick or tweat," and smiling neighbors ask, "And what are you supposed to be, little girl?"

The night before Halloween, however, is when the freaks come out. It's when the paint-huffers with missing fingers limp down the street in search of discarded furniture to rub against and neighbors cry with their backs against the front door, "Why won't you leave us alone?"

And it'll get even weirder when Sweat Records hosts lo-fi psych kings Black Moth Super Rainbow at The Stage on October 30. Tom Fec is the mastermind behind all things BMSR, as well as a solo artist who records even stranger sounds as Tobacco. And Fec's exactly the sort of guy with whom you'd want to get spooky.

But Fec wasn't rattling a tin cup against the bars of his crib until the day he moved out; there were plenty of Halloweens when he did dress up.

"I usually just tried to create my own monster guy character," Fec says. "I love, like, shitty latex masks, the ones that are kind of thin and bad. I never liked the idea of wearing a costume. Not the stupid mask that goes with the shirt."

Any favorites?

"Probably my favorite costume is the one I made for our record label," he recalls wistfully. "And I'm allowed to say this because I'm Italian, but it's this Italian guy with this giant mustache, pockmarks and it's really fucking gross."